Introduction: The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship

Ida Danewid; Gabriele Proglio; Angelica Pesarini; Camilla Hawthorne; Timothy Raeymaekers; P. Khalil Saucier; Giulia Grechi; Vivian Gerrand

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-51391-7_2

Introduction: The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship

Ida Danewid
, Gabriele Proglio
, Angelica Pesarini
, Camilla Hawthorne
, Timothy Raeymaekers
, P. Khalil Saucier^*
, Giulia Grechi
, Vivian Gerrand

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We live in critical and crucial times. With the rise of neocolonial projects and extreme-right populism in Europe and beyond, not to mention the banal and gratuitous violence of neoliberalism, we face today an acute time of overdetermined crisis. These times urgently call for critical analyses about the world in which we currently live. For us, and many others beyond this volume, what is unfolding in the Mediterranean is, in part, constitutive of an unparalleled crisis. While migration across the Mediterranean is a complex and dynamic phenomenon where routes, countries of origin and transit, push and pull factors and more constantly change, the Blackness of it all is constant and ever present. Blackness, more often than not, functions as the symbol, metaphor, and trope of criminality, violence, and much more. So much so, that the performance and creation of legislation and law as well as public sentiments aired on radio or the football pitch are all ultimately the enactment of negrophobia.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Black Mediterranean
Subtitle of host publication	Bodies, Borders and Citizenship
Editors	Gabriele Proglio, Camilla Hawthorne, Ida Danewid, P. Khalil Saucier, Giuseppe Grimaldi, Angelica Pesarini, Timothy Raeymaekers, Giulia Grechi, Vivian Gerrand
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	2
Pages	9-27
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-51391-7
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-51390-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51391-7_2
Publication status	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Mediterranean Perspectives (MEPERS)
Publisher	Palgrave
ISSN (Print)	2731-5592
ISSN (Electronic)	2731-5606

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Danewid, I., Proglio, G., Pesarini, A., Hawthorne, C., Raeymaekers, T., Saucier, P. K., Grechi, G., & Gerrand, V. (2021). Introduction: The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship. In G. Proglio, C. Hawthorne, I. Danewid, P. K. Saucier, G. Grimaldi, A. Pesarini, T. Raeymaekers, G. Grechi, & V. Gerrand (Eds.), The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship (pp. 9-27). (Mediterranean Perspectives (MEPERS)). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51391-7_2

Danewid, Ida ; Proglio, Gabriele ; Pesarini, Angelica et al. / Introduction: The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship. The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship. editor / Gabriele Proglio ; Camilla Hawthorne ; Ida Danewid ; P. Khalil Saucier ; Giuseppe Grimaldi ; Angelica Pesarini ; Timothy Raeymaekers ; Giulia Grechi ; Vivian Gerrand. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. pp. 9-27 (Mediterranean Perspectives (MEPERS)).

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Danewid I, Proglio G, Pesarini A, Hawthorne C, Raeymaekers T, Saucier PK et al. Introduction: The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship. In Proglio G, Hawthorne C, Danewid I, Saucier PK, Grimaldi G, Pesarini A, Raeymaekers T, Grechi G, Gerrand V, editors, The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. p. 9-27. (Mediterranean Perspectives (MEPERS)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-51391-7_2

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